No lesson in that...I was sorry to hear about your friends getting separated...that's always hard. Do they have kids? If not then it's not too terribly bad.

The chess lesson is sacrifice for better position. You couldn't really do anything about it. You either take my bishop and wind up where we are now, or you could leave it alone and wind up losing two pawns.

Now it's a race to see if I can make my positional advantage more powerful than your material advantage...

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